Relational Database Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 57 110
Rank change year-on-year -38 +53 +22
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 20 48 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.97% 3.64% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.49% 14.50% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 21
10th Percentile £38,125 £37,250 £56,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £38,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £53,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -35.45% +61.84%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £70,625 £97,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +4.76%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 174 331 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.42% 25.13% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 100 203 350
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £95,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Berkshire

Relational Database
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -8 19 £57,500 -8.00% 2
Windsor - 1 £44,000 -
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (60.00%) Serverless
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Collibra
6 1 (5.00%) dbt
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Looker
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
4 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) Git
3 7 (35.00%) JUnit
4 6 (30.00%) JMeter
4 6 (30.00%) Mockito
5 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (10.00%) Postman
5 2 (10.00%) Selenium
5 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 12 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (30.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Quality Officer
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Spring
2 12 (60.00%) REST
2 12 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 11 (55.00%) Web Services
4 7 (35.00%) Node.js
4 7 (35.00%) React
5 6 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (30.00%) Apache Camel
5 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (30.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (30.00%) HTML
5 6 (30.00%) jQuery
5 6 (30.00%) JSON
5 6 (30.00%) Kafka
5 6 (30.00%) Mustache
5 6 (30.00%) WireMock
5 6 (30.00%) XML
6 2 (10.00%) pytest
6 2 (10.00%) SOAP
7 1 (5.00%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
1 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) Microservices
2 12 (60.00%) SDLC
2 12 (60.00%) TDD
3 11 (55.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (30.00%) BDD
4 6 (30.00%) Process Management
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) Workflow
5 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) ETL
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (10.00%) Fintech
6 2 (10.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Java
2 13 (65.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (45.00%) Python
4 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (10.00%) Go
6 2 (10.00%) PHP
7 1 (5.00%) R
7 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Talend